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Everybody Loves Raymond – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Everybody Loves Raymond – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Everybody Loves Raymond The Complete First Season (HBO-2004) The terrific Everybody Loves Raymond is the situation comedy structure stripped down to its barest elements. Because the sitcom genre peaked with Seinfeld and had nowhere else to go, the Raymond creators instead traveled back to the ‘50s, to the very inception of this odd but immortal art form, and hit the refresh button. Its … Continue reading →

Mad About You – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Mad About You – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Mad About You The Complete First Season (Columbia Tri-Star-2002) The best way to describe Mad About You comes not from the show itself but from a better one: Seinfeld. In it, a newly engaged George Constanza (Jason Alexander) finds himself, so obviously against his will, watching an episode of Mad About You with his fiancée. The look on George’s face … Continue reading →

Sideways (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Sideways (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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SIDEWAYS (2004) Starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht, Missy Doty, M.C. Gainey, Alysia Reiner, Shake Tukhmanyan, Duke Moosekian, Robert Covarrubias, Patrick Gallagher, Stephanie Faracy, Joe Marinelli, Chris Burroughs and Toni Howard. Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. Directed by Alexander Payne. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. … Continue reading →

Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Volume 6 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Volume 6 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 6 (Rhino-2004) The eighties were the decade when critics and fans celebrated bad older movies. There were tons of books on the subject… probably the best known of the genre were The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time and The Golden Turkey Awards, both written by current radio talk show host Michael Medved back when he was best known as … Continue reading →

Married With Children – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Married With Children – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Married… With Children The Complete First Season – 1987 (Columbia TriStar-2003) Simply scratch the surface of Married… With Children’s first thirteen episodes (now available on DVD), and you will find the most depressing show ever to appear on television. Beneath its fierce determination to be rude, crude and outrageous is revealed the sad punch line to … Continue reading →

Intimate Strangers (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Intimate Strangers (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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INTIMATE STRANGERS (CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES) (2004) Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy, Anne Brochet, Gilbert Melki, Laurent Gamelon, Helene Surgere, Urbain Cancelier, Isabel Petit-Jacques, Veronique Kapoian, Benoit Petre, Albert Simono, Claude Derepp, Aurore Auteuil, Ludovic Berthillot and Sabrina Brezzo. Screenplay by Jerome Tonnerre. Directed by Patrice Leconte. Distributed by Paramount Classics.  104 minutes.  Rated … Continue reading →

Chris Cooper – A Real Contender
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Chris Cooper – A Real Contender

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Chris Cooper – A Real Contender by Brad Balfour Originally posted on September 22, 2004. Actor Chris Cooper didn’t need a crystal ball to figure out how to make his character in Silver City — the bumbling local politician running for governor of Colorado — resonate in this hard-hitting reflection of our times. His campaign … Continue reading →

The Munsters – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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The Munsters – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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The Munsters The Complete First Season – 1964 (Universal-2004) Other than the Seavers on Growing Pains, was there ever a more shockingly grotesque suburban TV family than the Munsters? America’s automatic response, of course, is The Addams Family, but don’t even go there. Sure, the Addams were creepy, kooky and altogether ooky, but they were far from … Continue reading →

Here’s Lucy – Best Loved Episodes from the TV Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Here’s Lucy – Best Loved Episodes from the TV Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Here’s Lucy Best Loved Episodes from the TV Series (Shout! Factory-2004) Apparently, there were enough gay men and grandmas to keep Here’s Lucy firmly planted on CBS’ prime-time schedule during the most unlikely years of 1968-1974.  For those of you who can’t keep your Lucy series straight, this one opened each episode with a winking, … Continue reading →

The Man Show (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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The Man Show (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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The Man Show Season One – Volume One (Red Distribution-2003) When Comedy Central actually lives up to its name, the result is raw and raucous. With the hilarious The Man Show debuting in 1999 (and this first season now available on DVD), the comedy channel proves that there isn’t any shame in getting your chauvinism on — in fact, its … Continue reading →